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Reproduction of the original: The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker by John Strange Winter
'The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker' is a comedic novel written by John Strange Winter. It tells the story of a middle-aged woman, who fearing that her husband might leave her, decides to transform herself to make herself more physically appealing to her husband.
This book demonstrates for the first time that Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflote" is an enactment of the alchemical "opus magnum," in the form of a "chemical wedding," using Paracelsus's "tria principia" doctrine that was strongly prevalent among Freemasons towards the end of the 18th century.
Published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, these eleven essays look at compositional and performance matters, consider new archival research and provide an overview of work since the bicentenary in 1991.
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